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Levine, David K. - 2010

More advanced technologies demand higher degrees of specialization - and longer chains of production connecting raw inputs to final outputs. Longer production chains are subject to a "weakest link" effect: they are more fragile and more prone to failure. Optimal chain length is determined by the...

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Financing as a Supply Chain : The Capital Structure of Banks and Borrowers

Gornall, Will - 2013

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset volatility by an order of magnitude relative to that of...

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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-And-Unwind Banks in the Us and EU Before and During the Great Recession

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011

This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003 … size than in the US. We also find that a proxy for regulatory capture helps to explain bailout decisions in Europe. A …

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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2010

We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...

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Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the Crisis : An Update

Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2010

We update Rose and Spiegel (2009a, b) and search for simple quantitative models of macroeconomic and financial indicators of the "Great Recession" of 2008-09. We use a cross-country approach and examine a number of potential causes that have been found to be successful indicators of crisis...

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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the Us and Europe

Justiniano, Alejandro - 2012

-Saxon countries (the US and the UK), two Continental European countries (France and Germany) and two Scandinavian countries (Norway … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger … role in most European countries relative to the US …

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The Stock Market Crash of 2008 Caused the Great Recession : Theory and Evidence

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2011

and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929. Second, it compares a new model of the economy developed in recent …

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Animal Spirits, Financial Crises and Persistent Unemployment

Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2011

This paper develops a rational expectations model with multiple equilibrium unemployment rates where the price of capital may be unbounded above. I argue that this property is an important feature of any rational-agent explanation of a financial crisis, since for the expansion phase of the...

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A Fistful of Dollars : Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

Igan, Deniz - 2011

Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on financial institutions' lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse...

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Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages?

Davis, Donald R. - 2011

We consider trade between a flexible wage America and a rigid real wage Europe. In a benchmark case, a move from autarky to free trade doubles the European unemployment rate, while it raises the American unskilled wage to the high European level. Entry of the unskilled South to world markets...

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